Hay loader



G. A. PENNQYER HAY LOADER Filed May 17, 1922 Patented @et 14, i924.

UNITED STATES GEORGE A.. PENNOYEB', OF CROWHEART, WYOMING.

HAY LOADER.

, Application led May 17,

`T0 all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, GEORGE PnNNoYEn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Crowheart, in the county of Fremont and State of Wyoming have invented a new and useful Hay Loader, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved hay loader having the novel combination and arrangement of parts disclosed in the accompanying drawings and hereinafter described. I attain these and other objects of my invention by the mechanism illustrated in the drawings, in which zw Figure 1 is a side elevation of the invention.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section approximately on line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

`Referring to the accompanying drawings, I provide a suitable mast 1 consisting of a suitable iron pipe, the lower end of which is sunk in the earth and the upper end secured in upright position by a suitable number of guy ropes 21. Vertically slidable on pipe 1 I provide a loosely mounted clamp 3 to which is pivotally attached a suitable boom 2. Boom 2 is supported at the desired height by cable 6 which is run over pulley 7 carried by a suitable clamp 8 attached to the upper end of the mast. Cable 6 is divided and attached to fixed eyes 5 and 4 secured to the end and central portions of the boom, respectively, as shown inll Fig. 1. The mast also carries a clamp 13 secured te its upper end which supports a pulley 12 over which is run the operating cable 9, which is also run over the pulley 10 at the lower end of the mast, the pulley 10 being attached to a suitable clamp 11. Cable 9 is run over a pulley 14 which is suspended from the slidable ring 15 on boom 2. The end of cable 9 carnies a suitable hook or other means for engaging the hay to be loaded. Pivotally attached to ring 15 is a suitable latch 16 adapted to releasably engage the free end of the boom 2. The latch 16 is normally held in engagement with the boom by a suitable spring 18, as shown in Fig. 1. I provide a hand rope 19 attached to the pivoted latch 16 by which the latch may be disengaged from the end of boom 2, to allow the ring 15 to slide away from the end of the boom toward the mast.

In operating lthe device, a horse, team or mechanical power means may be attached to 1922. Serial No. 561,729.

the lower end of cable 9 to elevate and lower its hook 20, to which 'the hay to be loaded it attached by suitable means. The hand.

rope 19 is manually operated to release latch 16 from engagement with the end of boom 2 at the appropriate times. The latch 16 is a spring latch having its hooked end normally in engagement with the open end of the pipe boom 2. l/Vhen the hand rope 19 is pulled downward it thereby disengages the hooked end of the latch 16 from the boom and permits the ring 15 to slide inwardly on boom 2 and accordingly shift the position of hook 2O to which the material to be hoisted is attached. This arrangement permits of a wider range of operation of the hoisting cable 9 and hook 20 relative to mast 1. Thus the hoisting may be accomplished when the latch 16 is engaged on the end of the boom 2; the latch then released by hand by means of rope 19 and the loaded material will then be slid inward toward the mast 1 since ring 15 is slidably mounted on boom 2. The boom itself may be adjusted to the desired height by means of the cable 6. The boom being pivotally mounted on the adjustable clamp 3 by means of eyes 22 can be swung laterally in either direction to the extent desired, as indicated in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

lVhat I' claim is :-d

1. In a hay loader, the combination of a mast, a loose clamp mounted on the mast, a boom swingably attached to said clamp, means for vertically adjusting the boom, a hay loading cable, guide pulleys mounted on the mast over which said cable is run, a ring slidably mounted on the boom, a guide pulley suspended from said ring, a lat-ch device carried by the aforesaid ring and normally engaging the end of the boom, and means for manually disengaging said latch member from the end of the boom.

2. In a hay loader, the combination of a mast, a boom vertically adjustable on said mast, means for vertically adjusting the boom, means permitting of lateral swinging movement of `the boom, a ring slidably mounted on the boom, a latch member carried by said ring and normally engaging the end of the boom. means for manually disengaging said latch member from the end of the boom, a guide pulley suspended from the ring, a hay loading cable threaded over said guide pulley, and guide pulleys posiboom, means pe itting `of lateral swinging movement of the boom, a ring slifdall-y mounted on the boom, a latch `memloeugarried by said ring and normally engaging 'tlie Gnd 0f, the. bQOm, means fO-l' manually disenggling rSaid latch member from the end of the b b'm, a N'gi'i'id'expnlgley suspended from ,tlie ring, a hay loading sable tl'irea-ded over said `guide pulley, guide pnlleyspostioned near the 'upper` andfloyver'entls olf the mast,

ble threaded, tand means v"for adjustaljly clamping said guide pulleys in the desired position on the mast. v l

4C. In a hay ldadei,;ltl\1e domliiiatibn of a. mast, a boom, means foi' adjust-ably mount- 'i'ngtle boom on the mast, said means inclnfling 'a jlurazlityfbles attached to the boom near its outer end and near its central portion, a guide pulley adjustably suspended from the boom, means for releasably securing said guide pulley in a predetermined position near ,thQQUter rend :of ftheboom,

guide Apulleys y@lumped natllelupper .and leiver ends of the mast, "a 'hay-loadingable y threaded Giver, the -aolresaid ,guide pulleys,

and means for Vsecuring tlle mast Sinereet.,;`po

l y'siftlion. lrespctyively, over vvvliieh the hay-loading ea- GEORGE A. FENNOYIQR 

